News Google Announced Requirements for Developers Who Want to Reduce Google Play Commissions by up to 15% Starting July 1, Google will lower the Google Play commission to 15% for all app developers, but it will only apply to the first million dollars of revenue per year. If the revenue exceeds $1 million per year, the commission will increase to 30%.
News Nvidia Launches Canvas App That Turns Sketches Into Artwork You do not need to have any artistic skills to create such landscapes. All you need to do is schematically arrange objects using a palette of materials, including, for example, grass or clouds.
News Microsoft Teases the Upcoming Windows 11 Event Windows 11 itself is expected to support native and third-party widgets, Android apps, Linux graphical apps, and more. In addition, users of Windows 7, Windows 8.1, and Windows 10 will get free updates.
News Bill Gates Shared 5 Books to Read This Summer Bill Gates has recently been fond of books about the complicated relationship between nature and humanity, maybe because of the coronavirus that changed our lives or because he is in general concerned about climate disasters.
News Thailand SEC Banned Meme Coins and NFT Trading The regulatory action mainly targets meme coins such as Dogecoin (DOGE), which started out as a cryptocurrency joke. Exchanges have now asked to remove coins from this category along with utility tokens, NFTs, and other social tokens for 30 days.
News Web Founder Will Sell the Internet Source Code as NFT In April 2021, Tim Berners-Lee contacted Sotheby's administration with the idea of putting up a lot. The files were saved in a tar archive with their original time stamps. The lot will include HTML, HTTP, and URL.
News Chinese Startup Unitree Developed a Budget Analog of the Spot Robot While the Spot robot mainly focuses on commercial use to perform various jobs, the Go1 robot is primarily intended for ordinary people. Unitree has announced plans to make four-legged robots as affordable and popular as smartphones and drones.
News Tesla Starts Selling Model S Plaid, Its Fastest and Most Expensive Electric Car The flagship sedan Model S Plaid has changed a generation for the first time since 2012. The first 25 cars were handed over to customers, and journalists and guests conducted the first test drives.
News "Doge" Meme Sold for $4 Million as an NFT Token The "Doge" meme of a Shiba Inu dog was sold as a non-fungible token at the Zora online auction for $4 million. Thus, the image that spawned the Dogecoin cryptocurrency became the most expensive NFT meme of all time.
News Coinbase Brings Cryptocurrency Payments to Apple Pay and Google Pay At the same time, Coinbase customers will be able to get cashback when paying via Google Pay or Apple Pay – 1% in Bitcoin or 4% in Stellar Lumens. The Coinbase Card can be used only in the United States, except for Hawaii.
BigTech Apple Is Looking for a Manager With Experience in Working With Cryptocurrencies The applicant must have over 10 years of professional experience and over 5 years of experience with alternative payment providers such as digital wallets, BNPL, Fast Payments, cryptocurrencies, etc.
News Xiaomi Introduced HyperCharge Technology to Charge Smartphones in 8 Minutes The developer posted a video describing how HyperCharge works on the Mi 11 Pro. The smartphone receives 50% of the energy required to fully charge in just three minutes, and it can be charged up to 100% in almost 8 minutes.
News Twitter to Launch a Paid Subscription Called Super Follows According to app researchers, Super Follows will allow Twitter users with at least 10,000 followers and 25 tweets in the last 30 days to charge money for their content. Super Follows authors must be 18 years of age or older.
BigTech Apple Reportedly Tried to Buy the Verzuz Rap Battle Show During the March bidding, Verzuz was acquired by the Triller video network at a price higher than that offered by Apple, while the deal's value was not disclosed. This agreement ended the tech giant's partnership with the show's owners.
BigTech Apple and Samsung Launched LG Smartphone Trade-in Program in South Korea Samsung and Apple have launched a program to exchange old LG smartphones for new mobile phones in South Korea. To do this, they offer to pay the market value of old phones and give another $135 as a gift.
BigTech The Judge to Issue a Verdict in the Epic vs. Apple Trial by Mid-August Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers joked that she would try to issue a verdict by August 13. On this day last year, Epic Games launched a campaign to challenge the size of the commission on the App Store.
News Iran Banned Bitcoin Mining Due to Electricity Problems According to analyst company Elliptic, Iran accounts for 4.5% of the world's mining volume, which could provide the country with a total of about $1 billion a year, allowing it to bypass international sanctions.
BigTech Google Unveils Project Starline, the "Holographic" Video Chat of the Future It is currently unknown how long it will take for Project Starline to become available to the general public. Google says it is planning trial deployments with the company’s enterprise partners later this year.
News Microsoft to Stop Supporting Internet Explorer on Windows 10 in 2022 The development of new versions of the browser stopped in 2015. Microsoft Edge has become the main browser for new editions of Windows, but support for Internet Explorer is still ongoing.
BigTech Apple CEO Tim Cook Testified in a Trial Against Epic Games Denying Epic Games' claim that Apple is solely driven by profit motives, Tim Cook noted that banning competing app stores and reviewing all apps sold on the App Store ensures users' safety.
News YouTube to Begin Running Ads on All Videos and Impose Taxes on Bloggers YouTube will also impose taxes on bloggers who live outside the United States on profits generated from views in the United States. Therefore, the authors will have to provide Google AdSense with a tax ID, legal entity name, and channel name by the end of May.
News Xiaomi Introduced New Wireless FlipBuds Headphones With Active Noise Cancellation The Xiaomi FlipBuds Pro headphones are only available in black color for now. They have received touch control pads and feature 11mm Ultra Dynamic Sound drivers and a Qualcomm QCC5151 chipset paired with a Bluetooth 5.2 module.
News TikTok Began Testing a Job Hiring Service for Gen Z In the new service, brands can publish vacancies and job openings, whereas users can share not a regular resume, but a TikTok-style video. This way, they will have a unique opportunity to talk about themselves and their work experience.
News Tesla Temporarily Halts the Use of Bitcoin to Pay for Its Cars Tesla's CEO Elon Musk justified this decision by the environmental problems caused by mining, which is necessary to ensure the existence and functioning of the Bitcoin cryptocurrency.
News Twitter Subscription Service May Be Called Twitter Blue and Cost $2.99 a Month According to a leak by Jane Manchun Wong, Twitter's premium subscription has been dubbed Twitter Blue, and it will cost $2.99 per month. Twitter Blue users will be able to cancel sending a tweet within 30 seconds as well as create collections of posts they like.
